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- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
Hackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
PwC Ekes Past EY With $60.2 Billion in Reported Global Revenue
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 20, 2026
Wow, Big 4 are really rushing out revenue numbers this year aren't they? First we got Deloitte in late September, EY two weeks later, and now PwC has just dropped…
KPMG Australia Has Made a List of Things It Probably Should Have Done Already
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- October 14, 2026
...such as "support whistleblowers" and "punish people who do stuff that will give Australian Financial Review an easy 9 months of negative headlines." So KPMG Australia is still in its…
EY Didn’t Do Too Bad Last Year
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 13, 2026
Shortly after Deloitte released their 2026 revenue numbers on September 24, EY had some numbers of their own, announcing $57 billion in global revenue last week. Notably, they edged out…
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View AllMonday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Boss Hates Work From Home; KPMG Catches Some Heat For Personnel Plans | 11.2.26
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- November 2, 2026
Hey. Put down the fun size candy bar and read some news. In this news briefFar Be It From the SEC to Hinder Technological InnovationGT + CBIZ 4EverKPMG Gets Some…
Friday Footnotes: IRS Employees Told Not to Deliberately Choose Mediocrity; EY Partners Give Themselves Record Pay | 10.30.26
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. While you're here, subscribe to our newsletter to…
Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 30, 2026
Last Friday, 42-year-old Ian Brinksman was picked up by the feds for allegedly passing top secret national defense information to another individual. Though that individual wasn't named by any reports,…
CBIZ Shareholders Are Cool With the Grant Thornton Merger, the Deal is a Go
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- October 29, 2026
While everyone has been distracted by Anthropic's S1, another filing slipped past: a Form 8-K filed by CBIZ on October 27. If you didn't know that Viking ParentCo, Inc. and…
Looks Like Accounting’s Private Equity Feeding Frenzy Is Chilling Out Into a Nibble
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 28, 2026
According to CPA Trendlines' CPA PE Deal Tracker, which we must say is absolutely amazing, private equity firms are no longer gobbling up accounting firms like they were. Deal volume…
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View AllHackers Have Apparently Stolen a Whole Lot of PwC Homework
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 27, 2026
Oh no, hackers have swiped oodles of slides! PwC has confirmed that a third-party vendor it uses for employee records has been breached after a "cyber extortion group" said they…
Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Be Taking Clients’ Most Tedious Questions 24/7 Within a Few Years
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 30, 2026
Did you catch Bill Gates' recent chat with Ezra Klein? I didn't, thankfully my washed colleague regularly reads NYT and sent it to me via Slack. Many people are stuck…
The AICPA Wants Tax Pros to Take a Hit From Its New AI Risk CART
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 24, 2026
Rather than dropping a strongly worded letter on the topic of the IRS's position on AI in tax practice and dropping the topic there to focus on other pressing matters,…
Deloitte Survey: A Lot of People Are Using Clandestine AI at Work
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 16, 2026
As corporations everywhere shove AI down our throats and businesses wrestle with the conflict between rushing to integrate AI to not be left behind and having to pay for it…
Bill Gates Proposes a Tokens and Robots Tax
- Going Concern News Desk
- August 27, 2026
Bill Gates has written a loooong essay on AI covering all sorts of things from potential benefits to immediate concerns. Feel free to read the whole thing if you'd like,…
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View AllFinance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
For Firms, Growth is Down But Profitability Is Up
- Going Concern News Desk
- September 10, 2026
That's the headline from INSIDE Public Accounting based on the results of their 2026 Practice Management Report: The report draws on survey responses from 605 North American accounting firms, spanning…
AICPA Pushes Back on IRS Suggesting CPAs Should Charge Less If They’re Using AI
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- September 9, 2026
Back in June the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued its first solid AI guidance in the form of a bulletin titled Introductory Guidelines for Responsible AI Use in…
Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | October 16, 2025
- Liz Branch
- October 16, 2025
Struggling to Find Remote Accounting or Tax Talent? We’ve Got You Covered.If your firm or internal team is having a tough time sourcing qualified remote tax and accounting professionals, you're…
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Deloitte Guy’s Love Life Has Become a Federal Matter
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View AllHere Are Tax and Audit Salaries at Top 25, Top 300, and Regional Firms
- Going Concern News Desk
- April 11, 2025
Recruiting firm Brewer Morris has released its 2025 US CPA salary guide and should you want to read the whole thing you can request it from them here. Perhaps you,…
Friendly Reminder Not to Work Yourself to Death For This Profession
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 26, 2025
Saw this on the bird app yesterday and thought its message would be worth passing along what with 20 days remaining until April 15 and nerves as strained as ever…
Accounting Firm Abruptly Nopes Out of Tax Season Early (UPDATE)
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- March 20, 2025
Ed. note: An earlier version of this article's headline stated the sheriff is investigating. The Alexander County Sheriff's Office informed us they are not investigating, only fielding calls from the…
This Deloitte Office Has Eliminated Trash Cans at Desks to Make Staff Get Up Off Their Asses
- Going Concern News Desk
- November 7, 2024
Boston Business Journal wrote an article about Deloitte's new office in Boston and for some reason they chose to lead with this: You won’t find trash cans at the desks…
The IRS Decided to Troll Tax Pros For 10/15
- Going Concern News Desk
- October 15, 2024
We realize the decision to run maintenance on IRS systems likely isn't made by anyone who understands deadlines but surely someone who does could inform the IT department of these…
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View AllFinance Leaders Are Shopping for a CAS Partner, and They Brought a List
- Going Concern
- October 15, 2026
Cash flow, automation, fraud protection. Your firm can deliver all three. Finance leaders would like some help with the accounting. Not a little help, either. BILL asked 354 finance decision-makers…
Expense Management: Because Apparently Clients Will Pay You to Make Expense Reports Suck Less
- Going Concern
- September 15, 2026
Spend and expense management is one of the most in-demand CAS services—and one of the most underutilized. There’s still plenty of room to get into the game. Clients are drowning…
Top Remote Accounting Freelancers: February 3, 2024
- Liz Branch
- February 3, 2024
Looking to staff up for a season or hire a freelancer for a project? Accountingfly is ready to partner with you! Gain full access to a pool of highly skilled…
10 Essential Project Management Principles for Accounting Firms
- GoingConcern
- October 5, 2023
Every accounting firm struggles with project management, with smaller practices that are rapidly expanding taking the brunt of the damage. As your firm adds new clients, takes on more work,…
Mark Your Calendars, Here Are Your 2020 CPA Exam Score Release Dates
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- January 2, 2020
Everyone hyped for a brand new decade? Well you BETTER BE, because now we know […]
Kamp KPMG Puts Out a Welcome Mat
- Jason Bramwell
- January 2, 2020
Konstruction on KPMG Lakehouse is finally komplete, and the first group of kampers will descend […]
Moss Adams Got Hacked, Y’all
- Jason Bramwell
- January 2, 2020
Hope everyone is having a good start to 2020. We’re s-l-o-w-l-y easing our way back […]
Going Concern Presents: Our 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019
- Jason Bramwell
- December 31, 2019
Well, you guys did it. You made it through another year. 2019 was a pretty […]
Who’s Ready to Count Some Inventory?
- Jason Bramwell
- December 31, 2019
When I was going to community college, I worked at Sports Authority. And each year […]
Even During Holiday Time Off, PwC Partner Can’t Take a Break From PwC
- Jason Bramwell
- December 30, 2019
Work seems to follow Bhushan Sethi, partner and joint global leader of PwC’s People & […]
Whitley Penn Poaches Someone From KPMG and Issues a Press Release, Part I
- Jason Bramwell
- December 30, 2019
As 2019 winds down, we’d be remiss not to tell you guys that another KPMGer […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Deloitte Malaysia Partner Fined, Guilty Plea In $1.2M Scam, Jailed for Xmas
- Jason Bramwell
- December 30, 2019
Plus, several tax preparers have run afoul of the law. SC fines Deloitte’s partner for […]
Friday Footnotes: Which Big School Tops CPA Exam Lists?; PCAOB Goals; Big 4s Say FINE | 12.27.19
- Going Concern News Desk
- December 27, 2019
Ed. note: Welcome to the final Friday Footnotes of the decade! We hope you enjoy […]
The CPA Exam is Changing Soon, Here’s What We Know
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- December 26, 2019
Last week, we caught you up on the latest goings-on with the CPA Evolution process, […]
Holiday Protip: Don’t Leave the Interns Unsupervised With Excel
- Adrienne Gonzalez
- December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas, everyone!
